When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2023
There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine. A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.
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